Adaptive DCT/DPCM video signal coding method
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorLucas Y. Hui
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Abstract
An input frame of video sequence is partitioned into smaller blocks of pixel data where each block is subjected to an edge detection which examines the activities in the block itself and the surrounding blocks to determine whether the block can be classified as an edge block. If the block is classified as a non-edge block, the conventional DCT coding method (e.g. SM3) with or without motion compensation is applied to the block. On the other hand, if the block is classified as an edge block, the block is subjected to a pixel value prediction process with or without reference to the previously coded frames, followed by a quantization process, and a run-length encoding process with variable length codes, i.e., a DPCM process.
Claims3
A video signal coding method comprising of the steps of:
- partitioning each frame of an input video signal into smaller blocks of pixel data;
- subjecting each block to an edge detection which examines the block and its surround blocks to determine if the block can be classified as an edge block;
- subjecting the block to a discrete cosine transform coding process, if the block is not classified as an edge block, where the block is discrete cosine transformed into DCT coefficients, quantized, zig-zag scanned, and run-length encoded with variable length codes;
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- subjecting the edge block to a differential pulse code modulation process, if the block is classified as an edge block, where each of the pixel value in the block is predicted, the differences between the pixel values and the predicted values are quantized and run-length encoded with variable length codes.
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